SnagIt Screen Capture Plugin for Windows Live Writer

Screen captures are important when
creating Blog content and having an easy way to
capture images from the screen in a variety of ways and embedding them into a blog entry is a
key feature. TechSmith's SnagIt is an amazing tool for capturing screen
shots and marking up and editing captures easily with their built-in
image editor. And now you can use SnagIt directly from within
Windows Live
Writer with a couple of clicks to directly embed images into your Blog
content.

Reduces image clutter by optionally not saving images separately
from Live Writer

Lets you configure capture preferences

C# Source Code available

Here's what the plug in looks like in Windows Live Writer:

Clicking on the Insert SnagIt Screen Capture link causes the above dialog box to
pop up which allows you to configure various common SnagIt capture options.
Clicking Capture then activates SnagIt's capturing engine using the
standard SnagIt selection mechanisms that allow you to select - in this case -
the window to capture. Most of SnagIts native options are available through this
interface.

By default the settings made on the above dialog are not saved, unless you click
the Save Settings button which persists the settings for future access. Once
saved the saved settings become the default prefilled settings.

Images can be captured and optionally do not need to be saved to disk
permanently. Checking the Don't save image file option will capture the
file to disk and let Live Writer pick up the image for internal storage, but the
actual captured image on disk will then be deleted so you don't clutter up your
drive with captured images.

The plugin comes with the C# source code so you can customize the tool as necessary.

It's Free and comes with Source Code

This is a free utility. Use and distribute it as you like. It comes with all
C# for the Live Writer Api so you can customize it as needed. If you want to
find out more about how the plugin is built you can visit the
release blog entry.

Aloha,

+++ Rick ---

Version 1.15 released!

Mar. 2, 2012
Updated the SnagIt Plug-in to work with SnagIt 11. Updated a few of the
user interface features

Installer for Live Writer

Download code from GitHub

If you find it useful and you use
it frequently, consider making a small donation to show your
support.